Shadowing Practice: Scott Ian on Dimebag Darrell's Goat | Metal Hammer - Learn English Speaking with Video

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The phone rings.

It's Daryl again.

Hey Baldini.

Hey, Dime.

Baldini.

Baldini came from a men's clothing store in New York City

that Daryl happened to drive past one day on tour in a tour bus.

Third Avenue in the 50s somewhere there was a shop called Dino Baldini Men's Clothing.

Somehow that became my nickname.

Sometimes it was Baldini, sometimes it was Dino Baldini,

sometimes it was Jew baldini baldini it's it's dime i'm like

hey you get rid of him he's like fuck no

and i could hear him in the background same shit going off

and you know you know what people are like on fucking cocaine

that they don't shut the fuck up so

and dime had already said he had done a fucking ton of it

so i'm like god damn man that

that just fucking sucks he goes you telling me he goes that That motherfucker's fucking my shit up.

He goes, he fucking broke the glass.

He goes, you heard that glass before?

I'm like, uh-huh.

He goes, he fucking broke the glass on my Kiss kiss pinball machine

he kicked over a smoke machine in the living room

and he's chasing my motherfucking goat around the swimming pool daryl

had a goat as a pet with his goatee dyed the same color as Daryl's.

Oh, why wouldn't he?

So I'm like, holy fuck.

Much like you people, I started laughing when he told me about the goat.

It's not funny, motherfucker.

It ain't funny if fucking goat falls in the pool.

You think your fucking fucking gacked out boy's going to get in there?

No, fuck no. That's me in the fucking pool wrestling a fucking goat.

I laughed harder.

This is visiting to Darryl with all his hair all wet, trying to fucking wrangle a goat in the deep end of a swimming pool, going under the water, and like the goat,

like just like, I was fucking dying.

He's like, motherfucker, it's not funny.

I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This video has 37 sentences and 341 words to shadow. The speech runs for 2:00. The speaker talks at a natural 170 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. Only 77% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.

Key vocabulary in this video

14 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
goat noun	/ɡoʊt/	Any ruminant of the genus Capra.
dime noun	/daɪm/	A coin worth one-tenth of a dollar, that is, ten cents.
clothing noun	/ˈkloʊðɪŋ/	Any of a wide variety of articles, usually made of fabrics, animal hair, animal skin, or some combination thereof, used to cover the human body for warmth, to…
swim verb	/swɪm/	To move through the water, without touching the bottom; to propel oneself in water by natural means.
chase verb	/t͡ʃeɪs/	To follow at speed.
suck verb	/sʌk/	To use the mouth and lips to pull in (a liquid, especially milk from the breast).
cocaine noun	/koʊˈkeɪn/	An addictive drug derived from coca (Erythroxylum) or prepared synthetically, used sometimes medicinally as a local anesthetic and, often illegally, as a…
nickname noun	/ˈnɪkneɪm/	A familiar, invented name for a person or thing used instead of the actual name of the person or thing, often based on some noteworthy characteristic.
dye noun	/daɪ/	A colorant, especially one that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is applied.
gack verb	/ɡæk/	To make a sharp, sudden sound in one's throat, such as before vomiting or while coughing, gagging, etc.
goatee noun	/ˌɡoʊˈtiː/	A beard trimmed to grow only at the center of the chin.
pinball noun	/ˈpɪnˌbɔːl/	A game, played on a device with a sloping base (a pinball machine), in which the player operates a spring-loaded plunger to shoot a ball, between obstacles…
wrangle verb	/ˈɹæŋɡəl/	To convince or influence (someone) by arguing or contending.
wrestle verb	/ˈɹɛs(ə)l/	To take part in (a wrestling bout or match).

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Meaning
go off verb	To explode.
go under verb	To descend into a body of water; to founder.
kick over verb	Synonym of turn over (to start an engine)

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 10 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, ain't, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like goat, dime, clothing.

What is the Shadowing Technique?

Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.

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